I still remember with a profound sense of guilt an occasion on which I forgot a dinner engagement and remembered just as I had finished my own dinner. I rushed round, arriving very late, and tried to eat a second dinner, which I found to be an agonising torture.
出典:Bertrand Russell: On Feeling Ashamed, Nov. 23, 1932. In: Mortals and Others, v.1 (1975)
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As we get older the portions of our life that do not enter into our ordinary relations become greater and greater. Most of our friends know nothing of large passages in our lives, so that an increasing part of our past experience is excluded from most of our personal relations. The inevitable result is that as men grow older they come to feel more solitary, and when they meet a friend of long ago, this feeling is suddenly relieved.
出典:Bertrand Russell: On old friends,Jan. 4th, 1933. In: Mortals and Others, v.1 (1975)
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The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life. Professional moralists have made too much of self-denial, and in so doing have put the emphasis in the wrong place. Conscious self-denial leaves a man self-absorbed and vividly aware of what he has sacrificed; in consequence it fails often of its immediate object and almost always of its ultimate purpose. What is needed is not self-denial, but that kind of direction of interest outward which will lead spontaneously and naturally to the same acts that a person absorbed in the pursuit of his own virtue could only perform by means of conscious self-denial.
出典: The Conquest of Happiness, 1930, chap. 17: Th Happy Man.
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Among the head-hunters of Borneo it is indulged without the need of any moral claptrap, but civilised people cannot adequately enjoy the indulgence of their baser passions until they have cloaked them in a garment of lofty ethical sentiments. When people let loose upon a murderer the savage impulses of the head-hunter, they feel neither savage nor wicked but believe themselves to be upholders of virtue and good citizenship.
出典:Bertrand Russell: Interest in crime,Dec. 21st, 1932. In: Mortals and Others, v.1 (1975)
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<寸言> 野蛮な衝動を発散している時には,自分に対してそういった攻撃がなされるようなことはまさかあるはずがないと考える。しかし,ひとたびそのような目に遭うと、自分が過去にやってたことを忘れて・・・。
To be the recipient of affection is a potent cause of happiness, but the man who demands affection is not the man upon whom it is bestowed. The man who receives affection is, speaking broadly, the man who gives it. But it is useless to attempt to give it as a calculation, in the way in which one might lend money at interest, for a calculated affection is not genuine and is not felt to be so by the recipient.
出典:The Conquest of Happiness, 1930, chap. 17:The happy man
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The happy man is the man who lives objectively, who has free affections and wide interests, who secures his happiness through these interests and affections and through the fact that they, in turn, make him an object of interest and affection to many others.
出典: The Conquest of Happiness, 1930, chap. 17: Th Happy Man.
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Fear is the principal reason why men are so unwilling to admit facts and so anxious to wrap themselves round in a warm garment of myth. But the thorns tear the warm garment and the cold blasts penetrate through the rents, and the man who has become accustomed to its warmth suffers far more from these blasts than a man who has hardened himself to them from the first. Moreover, those who deceive themselves generally know at bottom that they are doing so, and live in a state of apprehension lest some untoward event should force unwelcome realisations upon them.
出典: The Conquest of Happiness, 1930, chap. 17: Th Happy Man.
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The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a happy creed; each may attribute his happiness or unhappiness to his beliefs, while the real causation is the other way round.
出典: The Conquest of Happiness, 1930, chap. 17: Th Happy Man.
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Men in whom ambition is the leading passion are likely to love women who assist them in their career, and it would be very shallow psychology to suppose that the love is not real because it has its instinctive root in self-interest
出典:Bertrand Russell: Love and Money,Dec. 14th, 1932. In: Mortals and Others, v.1 (1975)
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Nothing is more fatiguing nor, in the long run, more exasperating than the daily effort to believe things which daily become more incredible. To be done with this effort is an indispensable condition of secure and lasting happiness.
出典: The Conquest of Happiness, 1930, chap. 16: Effort and Resignation.
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